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Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
at George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography and Film
Rochester, NY, USA
Jun 20, 14 - Oct 19, 14

Mickalene Thomass: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman demonstrates the artist鈥檚 ongoing engagement with portraiture as a key to personal and cultural identity. A major feature of the exhibition is the film Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, a documentary portrait of the artist鈥檚 mother, who has served as her muse for the past decade. Interspersed with excerpts from a conversation between the artist and her mother鈥攆ormer fashion model Sandra Bush鈥攁re archival film clips, snapshots, and scenes of her mother in her hospital bed as she suffers the effects of the kidney disease that took her life shortly after the film was completed. read more...

Color as Structure
at McKenzie Fine Art, Inc.
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Jun 20, 14 - Aug 02, 14

Color as Structure examines the ways artists use deliberate color choices to create sculptural or architectonic space in their work, as well as exploring aspects of weight, movement, rhythm, light and optical vibration. Some artists employ systems to determine color choice, as in Paul Corio鈥檚 use of winning thoroughbreds from New York racetracks to determine the position of the colors within each pinwheel in his painting, or Richard Garrison鈥檚 dissection and restructuring of color schemes from newspaper circulars. Optical investigations through color selection are found in linear and patterned works by Rob de Oude and Mel Bernstine. read more...

Bernd Oppl: Inhabited Interiors
at Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Jun 21, 14 - Sep 16, 14

Bernd Oppl is a video and installation artist living and working in Vienna, Austria. Oppl makes architectural models inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock and other horror-genre legends, then introduces an unpredictable substance (for instance, ice or gelatinous goo) and films the effects taking place within those spaces. The resulting videos capture strange occurrences within mysterious interiors that seem to defy the laws of physics. read more...

UuDam Tran Nguyen: Waltz of the Machine Equestrians
at Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Providence, RI, USA
Jun 20, 14 - Nov 16, 14

Although artist UuDam Tran Nguyen has lived in Los Angeles for most of the last two decades, Vietnam is never far from his work or his thoughts. In those same two decades, Vietnam, like many Asian countries, has lost an incredible amount of natural and rural landscape. Dramatic economic growth and industrial development continue to replace once-bucolic fields with roads and highways, leveling small agrarian communities to make room for glass and steel skyscrapers. read more...

Dependency
at Gasworks
London, UK
Jun 20, 14 - Aug 03, 14

The group exhibition Dependency explores the 鈥渓engthening chains of interdependence鈥� that, according to German sociologist Norbert Elias, bind the micro and macro realms of social life. Presenting works by Patricia L Boyd, Moyra Davey, Melanie Gilligan and Marianne Wex, which all attempt to situate specific objects or actions within broader sociopolitical frameworks, the show reflects upon how material and ideological constructs, from the economy to patriarchy, implicate even the most routine aspects of the day-to-day. read more...

Alma Louise Visscher: Cathedral Cumulus
at Art Gallery of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Jun 20, 14 - Aug 17, 14

Inspired by ephemeral structures that evoke the sublime, Edmonton artist Alma Louise Visscher constructs, by hand, elaborate textile installations that reference synthetic cloud forms, Gothic architecture and natural structures. She explores the surfaces mediated between the body and soft architectures through her artistic practice, primarily focused on installation and public performances. During these performances, she asserts her body in relation to the built forms she has created鈥攓uestioning gender roles in the traditional construction of wearable versus built environments and the rituals of how the body responds to soft and permanent shelters and natural elements. read more...

Wilfredo Prieto: Speaking Badly about Stones
at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
Gent, Belgium
Jun 21, 14 - Sep 21, 14

Wilfredo Prieto (掳1978, Sancti Spiritus) is one of the most promising young artists to emerge from Cuba in recent years. He is often described as a 鈥榖aroque minimalist鈥�: he injects his work with a maximum of narrative power, meaning and emotion with minimal use of form and materials. However Prieto's work is never ponderous, on the contrary. read more...

Jakub Matu拧ka aka Masker: Pohled z lebky // View from the skull
at Galerie Dukan, Paris
Paris, France
Jun 21, 14 - Jul 26, 14

Galerie Dukan is pleased to present Pohled z lebky // View from the skull, the first solo exhibition of Czech artist Jakub Matu拧ka aka Masker (1981, Prague) at Dukan gallery. Masker鈥檚 latest works which have formed over his time and residency in London are characterized by a significant theme and formal constriction. The ongoing plot has stopped in time and transformed into itself. read more...

Lex Reitsma + Eiko Ishioka: Opera at the StedeLijk
at Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jun 20, 14 - Oct 19, 14

A presentation dedicated to Dutch National Opera, focusing on the work of two designers Lex Reitsma and Eiko Ishioka. From 1990 to 2014, graphic designer Lex Reitsma (1958) created the visual identity for Dutch National Opera. The Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka (1938-2012) designed the costumes for Wagner鈥檚 famous cycle of four epic operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, performed by Dutch National Opera from 1997-2014. read more...

Apocryphal Colony. Images of Coloniality in Spain
at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Le贸n
Leon, Spain
Jun 21, 14 - Jan 06, 15

Apocryphal Colony is an exhibition that questions the visual meaning of images, and reflects, specifically, on how colonial images are constructed, disseminated and interpreted. Colonialism, in simple terms, is a political, economic and cultural system designed to enable one territory to profit from another. Even if the occupation is purely military at first, the exploitation extends to many other spheres as time goes by. read more...